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By Benjamin Niolet, The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A federal grand jury added tax evasion and other charges Thursday to the corruption case against Ruffin Poole, a key aide to former Gov. Mike Easley. The new charges add dozens of years in prison and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines to the potential penalties hanging over Poole's head.
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By Erik Eckholm, The New York Times
CHOCOWINITY, N.C. — As school let out one day in January 2008, students from rival towns faced off. Two girls flailed away for several seconds and clusters of boys pummeled each other until teachers pulled them apart.
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A state payday for Dex One
By Mary Cornatzer, The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The state giveth and the state taketh away. That was the message of a Thursday meeting from the committee that oversees the state's incentives programs.
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DOT -- Bridge wasn't feasible
By Bruce Siceloff, The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Asked to referee a fight between a powerful coastal senator and an environmental group, the state Department of Transportation has sided with the senator. Mostly.
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The empire strikes out
By Stephen C. Fehr, Stateline.org Staff Writer
 New York Governor David Paterson replaced a governor caught up in a scandal. Now Paterson is accused of wrongdoing himself and has declined to run for election. Facing a myriad of challenges, including a $9 billion budget shortfall, Paterson is finding it difficult to be effective in his final months in office.
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An alternative to 'alternative' assets
By Gina Chon, The Wall Street Journal
Public pensions are increasingly asking a question that has haunted investors since the financial crisis: When is an alternative investment really more of the same?
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Congress does repair job on stimulus school construction plan
By Christopher Flavelle, ProPublica
Last December, we reported in USA Today [1] that a plan to subsidize billions of dollars in school construction under the stimulus bill had largely flopped. Now, Congress has passed a fix to get the program back on track. President Obama signed the bill today.
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Bill on personnel records planned
By Dan Kane, The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Personnel information on salaries, disciplinary actions and hiring decisions for public employees could be more available to taxpayers under legislation a Republican leader says he will seek to introduce in the coming session.
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GOP plots strategies to nullify health bill
By Naftali Bendavid, The Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON—Republicans are looking beyond Sunday's expected vote on the Democrats' health-care overhaul to focus on strategies for striking back should it pass, ranging from challenges to the measure by individual states to a national repeal campaign.
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Grant to aid work of stem cell groundbreaker
By Sarah Avery, The News & Observer (Raleigh)
An internationally known pioneer in using umbilical cord stem cells will research novel cerebral palsy treatments thanks to a $10.2 million gift to Duke University.
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Good weather may accelerate I-40 rockslide clean-up
By The Associated Press, The Winston-Salem Journal
ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- Crews trying to stabilize a mountainside to prevent future rockslides along a closed portion of Interstate 40 in North Carolina say the weather is finally right for getting a lot of work done.
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